
Known for
Acting
Born
August 2, 1924
Birthplace
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Died
June 21, 2001 (aged 76)
John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001), better known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted working man Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971 to 1979) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979 to 1983). O'Connor later starred in the NBC television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, where he played the role of southern Police Chief William (Bill) Gillespie. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the...
2024
as Self
2016
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2009
2000
as Marty O'Reilly
1999
as Jack 'Balls' O'Malley
1998
as Leo Barnes
1996
1995
as Bill Gillespie
1995
as Bill Gillespie
1994
as Bill Gillespie, Writer
1994
as Bill Gillespie
1994
1994
as Sheriff William O. 'Bill' Gillespie, Story, Executive Producer
1992
1991
1988
1988
1987
1986
as Lewis May
1985
as Santa Claus (voice)
1985
as Frank Nolan, Writer, Executive Producer
1979
1978
1977
as Frank Skeffington, Writer, Executive Producer
1976